The psychopaths that have followed your soaraway Shoot Up for the past nine years have always enjoyed the trials, tribulations and machinations of the varied characters within Shoot Up’s very own soap opera, Insulin Square, in which every character is diabetic. OPENING THEME TUNE NARRATOR Previously on Insulin Square … Episode One, Episode Two, Episode… Read More »

Shoot Up’s second favourite Scottish wonky-pancreas-supporters, the Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes have launched a handy new “quiz” for Libre users. I’ve put “quiz” in inverted commas because, of course, there’s no such thing as correct answer where diabetes is concerned. But that said, the ECED have put together a rather neat way of… Read More »

Friend of Shoot Up and regular contributor Rohan talks about his mental health and how it interacts with his diabetes. Just a warning that Rohan is very frank and this article does contain references to depression, self-harm and suicide. You’ll know whether reading further is best for you or not. -Tim I have been thinking a… Read More »

When shiny new rocket-fuel insulin Fiasp hit the market, my insulin tart tendencies immediately sprung into action. I had a chat with my consultant (“I’d like that please, I think it might help with post-meal highs and it costs the same as the stuff I use now”), we grappled through the mysteries of the NHS… Read More »

Gosh, it’s been a while hasn’t it? How’s things? Things have been mostly happy and uneventful at this end in the two years since I last blogged. Although – shock horror – I have split up with two of my diabetes old-faithfuls. Here’s a round up… *Spoiler alert*: I’ve not been cured. The child has… Read More »

To all of us with diabetes, Frederick Banting is a scientific giant to whom we owe a great deal. As we all know Banting won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Medicine, alongside JJR Macleod, for the isolation of insulin. Sadly Banting was killed in a plane crash in 1941, after both the engines of the… Read More »

Due to popular demand (that is, no demand whatsoever) we’ve revived your soaraway Shoot Up’s poll feature. This month we’re asking how you react when people ask about your diabetes. People’s reactions to talking about diabetes varies considerably – some people love talking about it, some people hate talking about it. Some people, like Tim… Read More »

I wrote about our second favourite flash glucose monitoring device – Abbott’s Libre – and covered off all the undoubtedly good things about the device. But all is not milk and honey in the land of the Libre and so I’ve jotted down a few of my annoyances for your delectation. Some of these are… Read More »